E. Glen Weyl Biography

E. Glen Weyl is an American economist, social technologist, and political economist whose work focuses on using technology to foster cooperation, diversity, and equitable prosperity. He's the Research Lead of Microsoft Research's Plural Technology Collaboratory, Founder and Chair of the Plurality Institute, and the RadicalxChange Foundation, a nonprofit advancing democratic innovation through technology. Weyl also serves as a Senior Advisor to Harvard’s GETTING-Plurality Research Network.

Weyl graduated as valedictorian from Princeton University in 2007 and earned his PhD in economics there in 2008. He taught at the University of Chicago, Yale, Princeton, and Harvard and joined Microsoft Research in 2016, later leading Web3 technical strategy at Microsoft's Office of the CTO. His research spans economics, sociology, and computer science, addressing issues like industrial organization, public economics, and the intersection of technology and democracy. He co-invented Quadratic Voting and Quadratic Funding, mechanisms to enhance collective decision-making and resource allocation, which have been adopted globally by governments, companies, and Web3 ecosystems like Ethereum.

He co-authored “Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society” (2018) with Eric Posner, proposing new market-based solutions for equality, and “Decentralized Society: Finding Web3’s Sou”l (2022) with Vitalik Buterin and Puja Ohlhaver, one of the most downloaded papers on the Social Science Research Network. Weyl is working on “Plurality: Technology for Cooperative Diversity and Democracy” with Taiwan’s Digital Minister Audrey Tang. Recognized as a blockchain and technology influencer by CoinDesk, WIRED, and Bloomberg Businessweek in 2018, he’s published in top journals like the American Economic Review and Harvard Law Review.

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